Independent Contruction of Text

Story Retelling
1. Tell to your friends about a pourquoi tale that you remember.
2. Remember a history tale that you have read recently and tell it to your friends.
3. Don't forget to use the gambits of retelling a story.

Sumarry

NARRATIVE

Narrative deals with problematic events which lead to crisis or turning point of some kind (climax), which in turn finds a resolution.

Purpose:

• to amuse or to entertain.
• to deal with actual vicarious experience in different ways.

Text Structure

• Orientation : Who/ What, When, Where
• Compilaction : What problem didthe character have?
• Resolution : How was the problem solved?

Language Features

• Focus on specific and individualized participants.
• Use of material processes. (action verbs)
• Use some of behavioural and verbal processes.
• Use of relational processes and mental processes.
• Use of past tenses.
• Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal circumstances.